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• After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.

  Jean Cocteau

  Writing, Temptation, Poison

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• Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you to add something to the pleasure of others, or to diminish something of their pains. And for every grain of enjoyment you sow in the bosom of another, you shall find a harvest in your own bosom; while every sorrow which you pluck out from the thoughts and feelings of a fellow creature shall be replaced by beautiful peace and joy in the sanctuary of your soul.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Beautiful, Pain, Joy

  "Will this man make you happy?" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2008.

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• Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this.

  Plutarch

  Weight, Earth, Might

  Plutarch (2013). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.186, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make haste to remove them from the Louvre. True, we are trying more and more to gauge the feelings of those first spectators, but without forgetting our own, and we can be contented all the more easily with the mere knowledge of the former, without experiencing them, because all we wish to do is put this knowledge to the work of art.

  Andre Malraux

  Art, Feelings, Trying

  "The Voices of Silence". Book by Andre Malraux, Doubleday, art I, Chapter III, 1953.

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• Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand.

  Owen Feltham

  Glasses, Hands, Long

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.32

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• I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.

  Aristophanes

  Kissing, Eggs, Shells

  Aristophanes (2012). “The Birds”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Did we not aid the grisly Taliban to achieve and hold power? Yes indeed 'we' did. Well, does that not double or triple our responsibility to remove them from power?

  Christopher Hitchens

  Responsibility, Doe, Achieve

  Christopher Hitchens (2004). “Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays”, p.418, Nation Books

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• If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others, for the knowledge of the truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.

  Maimonides

  Eye, Men, Sight

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.1029, Moses Maimonides

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• The strange and wonderful Book of Job treats of the same subject as we are discussing; its contents are a fiction, conceived for the purpose of explaining the different opinions which people hold on Divine Providence. ...This fiction, however, is in so far different from other fictions that it includes profound ideas and great mysteries, removes great doubts, and reveals the most important truths. I will discuss it as fully as possible; and I will also tell you the words of our Sages that suggested to me the explanation of this great poem.

  Maimonides

  Jobs, Book, Ideas

  "Guide for the Perplexed". Book by Maimonides, Ch.22, 1190.

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• Artaud sought to remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a place where the spectator is exposed rather than protected, Artaud was committing an act of cruelty upon them.

  Antonin Artaud

  Distance, Theatre, Danger

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• We say then, that Christianity is adapted to the intellect, because its spirit coincides with that of true philosophy; because it removes the incubus of sensuality and low vice; because of the place it gives to truth; because it demands free inquiry; because its mighty truths and systems are brought before the mind in the same way as the truths and systems of nature; because it solves higher problems than nature can; and because it is so communicated as to be adapted to every mind.

  Mark Hopkins

  Philosophy, Giving, Mind

  Mark Hopkins (1863). “Evidences of Christianity: Lectures Before the Lowell Institute, January 1844”, p.136

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• The infidelity that springs from the heart is not to be reached by a course of lectures on the evidences of Christianity; argument did not cause, and argument will not remove it.

  Mark Hopkins

  Spring, Heart, Infidelity

  Mark Hopkins (2009). “Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity”, p.360, Applewood Books

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• Remove from the history of the past all those actions which have either sprung directly from the religious nature of man, or been modified by it, and you have the history of another world and of another race.

  Mark Hopkins

  Religious, Past, Men

  Mark Hopkins (1863). “Evidences of Christianity: Lectures Before the Lowell Institute, January 1844”, p.47

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• Not only did waging war against Hitler fail to save the Jews, it may be that the war itself brought on the Final Solution of genocide. This is not to remove the responsibility from Hitler and the Nazis, but there is much evidence that Germany's anti-Semitic actions, cruel as they were, would not have turned to mass murder were it not for the psychic distortions of war, acting on already distorted minds. Hitler's early aim was forced emigration, not extermination, but the frenzy of it created an atmosphere in which the policy turned to genocide.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Responsibility, Psychics

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.248, Seven Stories Press

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• Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness.

  Terry Eagleton

  Communication, Writing, Hands

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.113, John Wiley & Sons

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• I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.

  Robert Moses

  Ghetto, Eggs, People

  "Robert Moses, Master Builder, is Dead at 92" by Paul Goldberger, archive.nytimes.com. July 30, 1981.

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• Faith is the backbone of the social and the foundation of the commercial fabric; remove faith between man and man, and society and commerce fall to pieces. There is not a happy home on earth but stands on faith; our heads are pillowed on it, we sleep at night in its arms with greater security for the safety of our lives, peace, and prosperity than bolts and bars can give.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Faith, Fall, Sleep

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 218, 1895.

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• Theology recognizes the contingency of human existence only to derive it from a necessary being, that is, to remove it. Theology makes use of philosophical wonder only for the purpose of motivating an affirmation which ends it. Philosophy, on the other hand, arouses us to what is problematic in our own existence and in that of the world, to such a point that we shall never be cured of searching for a solution.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Hands

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1988). “In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays”, p.44, Northwestern University Press

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• I think it was right to remove Saddam Hussein. I think it was the right decision then and I still think it was right now.

  David Cameron

  Thinking, Decision, Hussein

  "Live Breakfast" on BBC Radio 5, October 21, 2005.

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• To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and passion, to make reason the arbiter and supreme guide of public opinion; that is the essential goal of the sciences; that is how science will contribute to the advancement of civilization, and that is what deserves protection of governments who want to insure the stability of their power.

  Georges Cuvier

  Passion, Men, Civilization

  "Rapport historique sur les progrès des sciences naturelles depuis 1789, et sur leur état actuel". Book edited by Georges Cuvier (translated), 1810.

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• Would you render the same level of support to someone who hadn't conscientiously objected, but rather instead rolled a grenade under their line officer in order to neutralize the combat capacity of their unit? Conscientious objection removes a given piece of the cannon fodder from the fray; fragging an officer has a much more impactful effect.

  Ward Churchill

  Order, Support, Pieces

  "CU Prof Defends Military Remarks" by Jim Kirksey and Amy Herdy, www.denverpost.com. June 29, 2005.

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• Pray to God with tears in your eyes whenever you want illumination or find yourself faced with any doubt or difficulty. The Lord will remove all your impurities, assuage your mental anguish, and give you enlightenment.

  Sarada Devi

  Eye, Illumination, Giving

  "Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations". Book by Swami Nikhilananda, August 31, 2004.

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• The treatment of children in Indian residential schools is a sad chapter in our history... Two primary objectives of the residential schools system were to remove and isolate children from the influence of their homes, families, traditions and cultures, and to assimilate them into the dominant culture.

  Stephen Harper

  Children, Home, School

  Stephen Harper's Statement of Apology, www.cbc.ca. June 11, 2008.

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• Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family. Our no-fault insurance has removed our responsibility for car accidents, and no-fault divorce has removed our responsibility for marriage accidents; why should abortion not be our no-fault sexual insurance policy that removes our responsibility for sex accidents?

  Peter Kreeft

  Sex, Divorce, Responsibility

  Peter Kreeft (2002). “Three Approaches to Abortion: A Thoughtful and Compassionate Guide to Today's Most Controversial Issue”, p.64, Ignatius Press

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• Africa must revert to what it was before the imperialists divided it. These are artificial divisions which we, in our pan-African concept will seek to remove.

  Robert Mugabe

  Division, Artificial, Divided

  Robert Mugabe's speech at a meeting in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, April 9, 1962.

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